Events Archive – Spring 2024

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Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with 51��

6:00pm, 10 Apr 2024

The Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with 51�� series offers visitors after-hours access to our latest exhibition and a range of other activities.��

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The House of Mirth: the ethics of laughter and ridiculous Gothic art

6:00pm, 26 Mar 2024

Professor Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS Executive Dean and Deputy Director

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Daphne on film: Eco processing 16mm film with bay-laurel

5:30pm, 25 Mar 2024

Join the artist Catriona Gallagher in this performance lecture and screening which explore her process of developing 16mm film in bay leaf infusions and phytogram prints on film and photographic paper, as well as her research on the metamorphosis of ...

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Art, culture, politics and society – German art in an expanded field: A Colloquium in honour of Dr Shulamith Behr (1946-2023)

2:00pm, 20 Mar 2024

International experts on German modernism will convene for a one-day symposium to celebrate the scholarship and pedagogical practice of Dr Shulamith Behr (1946-2023), treasured colleague, mentor, teacher and friend to so many in the Courtauld communi...

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Making Choices

6:00pm, 19 Mar 2024

Professor Dorothy Price FBA, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History

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Book Launch: Bergson in Britain, Charlotte de Mille

5:30pm, 18 Mar 2024

Charlotte de Mille illuminates the pivotal role of Bergson’s philosophy for UK artists and art critics before 1914.

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Careers for Medievalists?

10:00am, 16 Mar 2024

Sponsored by the British Archaeological Association, this event aims to demonstrate the range of career options available to medievalists, especially those studying in Art History and adjacent disciplines such as History, Archaeology and Heritage Stu...

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Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages

10:00am, 15 Mar 2024

In this postgraduate colloquium, speakers will explore new and alternative perspectives on how art and material culture reflect and produce concepts of identity and authority in the Middle Ages

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Book Launch: Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in 51�� Gallery

5:30pm, 14 Mar 2024

Please join us in celebrating the publication of the first catalogue devoted to 51��'s distinguished collection of Italian Maiolica and Early Modern ceramics.

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Redisplaying the Buddhist Collection at Chiddingstone Castle

5:30pm, 12 Mar 2024

In this talk, Naomi Collick and Dr. Nick Swann will discuss the processes of research, consultation, and collaboration undertaken by museums like Chiddingstone Castle to redisplay, reframe, and decolonise their Buddhist collections

Solar Wheels and other stories

6:00pm, 11 Mar 2024

Shen Xin is an artist and storyteller who uses video, sound, installation and performance to tell ‘embodied stories’ about forms of inhabitance and dwelling – how we live with others in the places we are drawn to, settle in or claim as ours, as well ...

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Charcoal and Chiaroscuro:
Frank Auerbach’s Graphic Portraits and Post-war Culture

11:00am, 8 Mar 2024

The occasion of the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Auerbach’s early portrait drawings from the 1950s and 1960s offers an opportunity to discuss, situate and reinterpret this rich body of work, which proved crucial in establishing the reput...

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Chivalry, justice and love: Royal architecture in fourteenth-century Castile

5:30pm, 6 Mar 2024

This talk, delivered by Elena Paulino-Montero, will analyze the process of codification of royal spaces in Castile in the 14th century.

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All I Ever Did: The form and fortunes of the modern monographic exhibition, past, present, future

6:00pm, 5 Mar 2024

Professor Martin Caiger-Smith, Head of MA Curating the Art Museum

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Museum Debate – Contested Threads: Curating Textiles

6:30pm, 4 Mar 2024

Organised by the MA Curating the Art Museum cohort, this museum debate 'Contested Threads: Curating Textiles' brings together artists, curators, and art historians for a critical discussion on the display of textiles in contemporary art spaces, expl...

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Book event: Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930-1960

5:30pm, 1 Mar 2024

Please join us for a discussion between Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin), Ines Weizman (School of Architecture, Royal College of Art) and Robin Schuldenfrei, the author of Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930-1960 (P...

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Royal School of Needlework at 51��

10:00am, 1 Mar 2024

The Royal School of Needlework and 51�� are delighted to be partnering on a Canvaswork hand embroidery class inspired by a stunning Floral Back Chair from the museum’s Bloomsbury Room. The one-day class will be held at the museum on Friday 1...

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Throwing Shade on Paris, 19th-century Capital of Fashion.

5:00pm, 28 Feb 2024

This paper explores how Paris fashion constructed its exclusive and exclusionary world. It also casts light on some of the marginalized players in the field of fashion. In doing so, it expands fashion’s borders by demystifying the discourses that swi...

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Innocent Ornaments? Weaving a Distance from the Canon

5:30pm, 26 Feb 2024

Join Nadia Radwan, University of Bern, for a lecture on abstract artists from the Middle East, who have lived and worked in Europe and the United States between the 1950s and 1970s.

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Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Colour, Join Face

6:00pm, 14 Feb 2024

Julia Bryan-Wilson in conversation with Jo Applin.

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To save the self: the camera, the painter’s dilemma, and Rumi’s solution

6:00pm, 13 Feb 2024

Professor Sussan Babaie,��Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam

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Managing Collection Environments: Research, Tools, and Practice

5:30pm, 12 Feb 2024

Join scientists and conservators from the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) for an overview of the Managing Collection Environments (MCE) Initiative, which aims to inform environmental strategies for the sustainable control and management of collect...

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Gauguin and Polynesia

5:30pm, 9 Feb 2024

This discussion, chaired by Dr Caroline Levitt, will explore the challenges of Gauguin's art and its legacies.

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Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers

5:00pm, 8 Feb 2024

Coinciding with the final days of the exhibition La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th century Venice, this event marks the publication of the volume Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers 1420-1620.

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tannczen, helsen, kussen, vnd rawmen: Of Dancing and Dalliance in the Late Middle Ages

5:30pm, 7 Feb 2024

Join us for the 2024 International Center of Medieval Art annual lecture delivered by Professor Nina Rowe.

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Another History of the World

5:30pm, 29 Jan 2024

The talk by Professor Pierre Singaravélou will take the exhibition ‘Another History of the World’ currently on view at the Mucem in Marseille as a starting point.